Awatchfire

Grant County, Washington

Crab Fire

Burning 7.0 miles south-east of Royal City and 12.2 miles south-west of Marine View, since Friday 2 October.

Map of Washington. The Crab Fire burns 50 miles from Ellensburg and 52 miles from Yakima, and 160 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 50 miles from Ellensburg and 52 miles from Yakima.

6

acres burned so far

12

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Crab Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 307 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 307 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Crab Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

307hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:15pm on Friday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

6.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Royal City at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Marine View is 12.2 miles, None in the last day.

0.1miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Loc-Crab Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles west, and has reached 20 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 9.8 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 96% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-14 fire

The record here begins at 2:14pm on 2 Oct and runs to 2:14pm on 2 Oct — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 14, so the first 13 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Crab Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Fri 2:00pmFri 2:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:14pm to 2:14pm
    • Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Friday 2 October

    First reported at 6 acres

    6 ac

  2. Friday 2 October

    20 acres on record

    20 ac

  3. Friday 2 October

    Revised to 6 acres

    6 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 6 acres when it was first written down to 6 now. Nothing has looked at it for 307 hours, and the record still lists it as active.